Instructor: Amie Whittemore
Cost: $60 Members | $65 Non-Members
Friday, March 27, 2015
1:00 PM-5:00 PM

Limited to 12 students.

What makes a piece of writing a prose poem and not poetic prose? In this seminar, we'll explore how prose poetry is informed by the qualities of both poetry and prose, and how those qualities intersect. We'll closely read and dissect prose poems by authors such as Carolyn Forché, Robert Hass, and James Wright, and we'll experiment with writing our own. Participants are encouraged to bring in a draft of a prose poem for discussion. This seminar is appropriate for poets of all levels, but curious fiction writers are welcome, too!

Please join us Sunday, April 19, at 2:00 pm for a Literary Salon with poet Lisa Russ Spaar. 

To paraphrase the poet Anne Carson, our lives begin the moment desire (for food, love, shelter, sky, the divine) enters us, and how we manage that yearning—what we make of it, to what uses we put it—is largely the measure of who we are. In what unique ways do poems not only grow out of but create and sustain the experience of desire? "I know not which, Desire, or Grant -," wrote Emily Dickinson, "Be wholly beautiful -." Join us as poet Kyle Dargan interviews poet Lisa Russ Spaar about the ways in which poems can uniquely both desire and grant, reach for and fulfill human experiences of yearning. Free and open to the public.

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Creative Writing Camp for Kids

Session I: Monday-Friday, July 13-July 17, 2015 | 1:00 - 5:00pm
Session II: Monday-Friday, July 20-July 24, 2015 | 1:00 -5:00pm

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Grades 3-5: Story Camp
Session 1 Instructor: Terry Levinson
Session 2 Instructor: Robin Albertson-Wren, St. Anne's Belfield School

Put your story ideas on paper, or discover new ideas with the help of other writers.

Grades 6-8: Writing Circle
Session 1 Instructor: Erin James, Henley Middle School
Session 2 Instructor: Jen Wilson, Field School

Spend the week playing with different plots and prompts, creating characters, and responding to fellow writers' work.

Grades 9-12 and 2015 High School Graduates: Writing Workshop
Session 1 Instructor: Charlotte S. Wood, Albemarle High School
Session 2 Instructor: Jordan Taylor, St. Anne's-Belfield School

Create new work and polish existing pieces (poetry, fiction, movie scripts, etc.) with supportive feedback from the group.

We're excited to offer new classes and seminars, including Writing Children's Picture Books, Comedy Sketch Writing, and day and evening poetry and fiction and nonfiction workshops.. Check out the full schedule of 8-week classes and weekend seminars.

Scholarships: We have a limited amount of funding to help those who want to take a class or seminar but can't afford it. In order to apply, please download and fill out our Scholarship/Subsidy Form and send it to us with your class registration and partial payment. We ask that anyone who receives subsidies please remember us with a donation when you are able.